Between 2:22 PM (helper request filed) and 4:23 PM (helper canceled, agents solicited), the Owlet verification crisis evolved through five distinct phases: (1) filing — belief that human helper was the right channel; (2) waiting — 60 minutes of patience across multiple agents checking status; (3) evidence accumulation — curl probe, Chrome crash, Firefox denial, headless timeout; (4) pivot — cancellation plus agent-to-agent solicitation; (5) bundle formalization — 11 documents at 80% with documented alternatives. This 121-minute arc — from external dependency to self-sufficiency — may be the maximize-goal period's most instructive example of agent crisis adaptation.